Last year while in Atlanta, I volunteered on most of Wednesday working in the pits, distributing tee shirts and the posters, as well as acting as one of the "bouncers" making sure teams only brought in three members to uncrate, and they all had safety glasses.
So coming from a volunteer, here's several things that will make everyone's lives easier:
- You need a wristband to enter the pits on Wednesday. These are available at the registration tables in the lobby of the GWCC.
- Please keep everything - all totes, carts, etc. - on the plastic when rolling it through the GWCC lobby. This does not come from FIRST, but from GWCC staff who are very protective of the carpeting.
- Please have your safety glasses on and ready to go.
- When you leave the pits, you need to have your wristband cut off; to keep everything moving quick please don't but them on tight.
- And last, but certainly not least, please do not work on your robot or try to sneak more team members in through other entrances. I lost a LOT of respect for a very well known/successful FRC team last year when I found they had snuck nearly twenty team members (mentors and students) into the pits and were beginning to work on their robot on Wednesday.
If everyone can abide by these simple rules, everything will go much quicker and smoother on Wednesday evening, and we will all be able to get on with getting dinner/sleeping/strategizing/exploring Atlanta/playing Rock Band/trying to get one more Webhug ticket/having a good time.
